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Speaker 1: Welcome to Hoops Tonight, presented by Fandel here at the volume.

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Speaker 1: Happy Tuesday, everybody. I hope all of you guys are

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Speaker 1: having a great week so far. Quick show today, We're

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Speaker 1: only gonna go for about fifteen twenty minutes. I want

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Speaker 1: to touch on the Nets Sixers game from last night,

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Speaker 1: as well as the Lakers first appearance of this season.

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Speaker 1: We also did have a hilarious mistake yesterday. I shouldn't

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Speaker 1: say we I had a hilarious mistake yesterday. I watched

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Speaker 1: like five preseason games in the morning for the purposes

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Speaker 1: and for all of them, I stopped watching typically around

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Speaker 1: I got the full roast job last night on YouTube.

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Speaker 1: Shouts to Patrick, You were the one I thought was

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Speaker 1: legitimately made me laugh this morning, So you win the roast, Patrick. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna make mistakes all the time on the show.

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Speaker 1: It's just the nature of the business. I can promise

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Speaker 1: you though, when it comes to real basketball games in

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Speaker 1: the regular season in the playoffs, I will be aware

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Speaker 1: more this morning, about four minutes on the net Sixers game,

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Speaker 1: And on that note, let's talk some basketball. So the

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Speaker 1: Lakers report, basically, the gist of it is is that

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Speaker 1: the Lakers almost made a deal with the Pacers right

455
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Speaker 1: before training camp, the one that we thought of, which

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Speaker 1: was Russ plus first plus first for Buddy Healed and

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Speaker 1: for Miles Turner. A couple other notes that I thought

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Speaker 1: were very interesting. From the first of all, they had

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Speaker 1: lots of meetings about it. They decided not to do it,

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Speaker 1: but they still are potentially considering trades in the next

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Speaker 1: few months if it doesn't go well, you know, the

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Speaker 1: whole deal. But there were two notes in particular that

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Speaker 1: stood out to me from that report. First of all,

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Speaker 1: uh Rob Polinka, Genie Buss, and Kurt Rambis are considered

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Speaker 1: like the brain trust of the Lakers when it comes

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Speaker 1: to basketball decisions. But in the article they did mention

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Speaker 1: that they are now factoring in the opinions of Jesse

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Speaker 1: and Joey Bus when they're considering these trade options. That

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Speaker 1: was encouraging to me on some level because I think

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Speaker 1: those are the two smartest basketball minds in that front office.

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Speaker 1: Kurt Rambay this is just completely disconnected from the modern NBA.

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Speaker 1: So his advice I'm really concerned about. Obviously, Jenie Buss

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Speaker 1: is not a basketball person. And then Rob Polinka. All

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Speaker 1: we all we have to go on is his decisions

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Speaker 1: over the years, and his decisions are once again more

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Speaker 1: indicative of of him being kind of like a figurehead,

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Speaker 1: a personality manager, a a sales person more than he

478
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Speaker 1: is the X his nose guy, you know. And that's

479
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Speaker 1: always been one of my biggest concerns with the Lakers

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Speaker 1: front office, is their decision making people are not basketball people,

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Speaker 1: you know. And then we have their scouting department, which

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Speaker 1: is led by Jesse and Joey Buss, and the two

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Speaker 1: of them have a track record of finding really high

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Speaker 1: quality NBA players on the fringes of the draft and

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Speaker 1: the free agency market, right like Austin Reaves, right, who's

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Speaker 1: turned into a pretty solid NBA player, A guy that

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Speaker 1: I think will be their fifth starter this year under

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Speaker 1: the current iteration of the roster. I say fifth starter,

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Speaker 1: I I that doesn't necessarily mean starting line up. It

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Speaker 1: just means like the fifth guy that they'll have in

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Speaker 1: key lineups, particularly closing games. Um. But they found Austin Reeves,

492
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Speaker 1: they found Kyle Kuzma, they found Taylor Horton Tucker. That

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Speaker 1: they have a track record of finding quality NBA players

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Speaker 1: on the fringes of the draft. That is indicative of

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Speaker 1: the fact that they understand the basketball. They understand what

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Speaker 1: works in the modern NBA. Obviously, I haven't had the

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Speaker 1: luxury of getting to chat basketball with Rob or chat

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Speaker 1: basketball with Jesse or Joey. All we can go on

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Speaker 1: is their decision making, and Rob Polinka has a very

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Speaker 1: questionable track record with decision making. Jesse and Joey do not,

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Speaker 1: So I like the idea of having them more involved

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Speaker 1: in decision making, although it was not enough to sway them. Apparently,

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Speaker 1: they did mention in the article that they want universal approval.

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Speaker 1: They want all five of those people to be on

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Speaker 1: both on board before they make a deal. Um. The

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Speaker 1: only other thing that I thought thought was really interesting

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Speaker 1: in that report is they said Lebron was among those

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Speaker 1: who are supportive of keeping Russ and I'm and I'm

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Speaker 1: not are basic that he's been you know, supportive behind

510
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Speaker 1: the scenes, and that he's not putting pressure on them

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Speaker 1: to make a trade. That's not a big surprise to

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Speaker 1: me because Lebron's Lebron's credibility was on the line there.

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Speaker 1: He's the guy who basically recommended this deal, pushed heavily

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Speaker 1: for this deal. He's the guy that's always wanted the

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Speaker 1: back up playmaker. He was the one who wanted Russ,

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Speaker 1: So I'm not surprised that he'd be one of the

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Speaker 1: last people to be the one who admits that it

518
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Speaker 1: didn't work out. Um, the reality of the situation is

519
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Speaker 1: the Laker. The Lakers are banking on Russ to become

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Speaker 1: what they need him to be, not what he actually is,

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Speaker 1: not what we have evidence of. He's in his fifteen season.

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Speaker 1: It's not exactly like we're going on small amounts of information.

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Speaker 1: They're banking on him changing in his fifth fifteen season.

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Speaker 1: My dad used to always tell me when I was

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Speaker 1: growing up, Um, that the best indicator of future performance

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Speaker 1: is past performance. What does that mean? That means that

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Speaker 1: obviously people can change, and we should hope for people

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Speaker 1: to change, especially in our personal friends and family network,

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Speaker 1: right like we should be rooting for people to make changes,

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Speaker 1: you know, especially when you're dealing with people that have

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Speaker 1: larger issues. But the reality is is that the best

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Speaker 1: indicator of future performance is past performance. So it's one

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Speaker 1: thing to hope for those types of changes, but when

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Speaker 1: you're planning, you should plan on what they were. That's

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Speaker 1: the most likely scenario. And so I don't like the

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Speaker 1: idea of planning the Lakers future based on Russ changing

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00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,480
Speaker 1: because it's just not likely at this point in his career.

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Speaker 1: And again that we're going to find out quickly. We

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Speaker 1: might find out tonight and when when we watch him

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Speaker 1: play in this preseason game, we're gonna find out quickly

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Speaker 1: how serious Russ is about changing the I wanted to

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Speaker 1: give you guys a really quick checklist of things to

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Speaker 1: watch for in tonight's game. One his shot selection. As

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Speaker 1: we mentioned last year, in terms of high volume ball creators,

545
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Speaker 1: he was one of the least efficient in the league.

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Speaker 1: One of the ways to pair that back is to

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Speaker 1: pair back his shot selection take shots that he actually

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Speaker 1: can shoot at a high percentage off ball offense, So

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00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: making spot up three's screening away for teammates screening on

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Speaker 1: the basketball, cutting without the basketball and crashing the offensive

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00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,680
Speaker 1: glass and then off ball defense, he has a tendency

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00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 1: to ignore his man, to recklessly help or to chase rebounds.

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00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 1: Watch him keeping tabs on shooters, offering smart help, not

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Speaker 1: getting out of position unless he needs to, and then

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00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 1: boxing out or checking to see where his man is

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Speaker 1: before he crashes the glass so he doesn't get out

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00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 1: of position. Those are things that I want you guys

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Speaker 1: to watch for in tonight's game. But now I don't

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Speaker 1: want to go too much further on the Lakers thing

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00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 1: because we've hashed it out before. But yeah, Lebron's clearly

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Speaker 1: in the pro RUSS camp. It's good that they're factoring

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Speaker 1: in Jesse and Joey. Those are the two smart basketball

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Speaker 1: minds in that front office. And it's a whole bunch

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00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 1: of maybees and this is the group of basketball players

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00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: that they're going to work with this year, and we're

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00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,680
Speaker 1: gonna find out pretty quickly what they're capable of. Lots

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00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 1: of positive energy coming out of Lakers camp, but that's

568
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 1: training camp. There was positive energy coming out of last

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00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 1: year's camp. So um, before we move into these preseason games,

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Speaker 1: and because this is gonna be related to the Laker

571
00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:05,640
Speaker 1: thing we just talked about. I care about preseason um,

572
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Speaker 1: not just because I'm a basketball nut job, but also

573
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Speaker 1: because I really do think it's indicative of your team's personality,

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Speaker 1: you know, like, um, look at you guys. An example,

575
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 1: t J McConnell came through the University of Arizona, and

576
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,639
Speaker 1: I've always been a psychopath on the basketball court, Like

577
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 1: I just care about every game. I hate losing, and

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00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,200
Speaker 1: I'm crazy enough to devote huge portions of my life

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Speaker 1: to it, even though I'm not a professional basketball player.

580
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 1: I relate to I relate to basketball psychopaths. And I

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Speaker 1: remember when I was playing at the rec center back

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Speaker 1: at the University of Arizona, when t J McConnell would

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Speaker 1: come through and we'd play. We'd be in these pickup games,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of the guys who came through the

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Speaker 1: uve A, they go up there and they just kind

586
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 1: of mess around and they kind of act too cool

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00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 1: for school. But then I'd see t J McConnell up

588
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 1: there just being a psychopath and like just caring about

589
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 1: winning pickup games against random students at the University of Arizona,

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Speaker 1: and him and I went added a bunch of times,

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Speaker 1: and and like I remember just sitting there thinking, like,

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Speaker 1: I like, I like this guy because he's just a

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Speaker 1: psychopath and he doesn't see a basketball game that he

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Speaker 1: doesn't care about. And that's kind of the way I

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00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: feel about preseason basketball. It's indicative of how serious you

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00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: are as a team, because the reality is is every

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00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 1: time you play preseason basketball, that's an opportunity to get better.

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00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: It's an opportunity to get reps. It's an opportunity to

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00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 1: see how you stack up against other teams around the league.

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Speaker 1: It's an opportunity to establish habits, to demonstrate what your

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00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 1: intentions are on a night in, a night out basis

602
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,959
Speaker 1: throughout the regular season. I don't think it's a coincidence

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Speaker 1: that the Lakers beat everyone's ass in the preseason and

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Speaker 1: then started twenty four and three in the regular season.

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00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a coincidence that the Lakers went

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Speaker 1: winless last year in the preseason and then immediately came

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Speaker 1: out the gates sucking, because that's what happens that you're

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00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 1: what you're seeing is what that team is made up

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Speaker 1: made up of psychologically. How much do they care about

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Speaker 1: defending in a preseason game, because if they don't defend

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00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: in a preseason game, they're probably not going to defend

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00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 1: against the Oklahoma City Thunder in mid November, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean. Like, at a certain point, you're learning

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00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 1: about the psychology of these locker rooms. So that's why

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Speaker 1: I care about preseason. Again, that doesn't necessarily mean wins

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00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 1: and losses, but it does mean what you see with

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Speaker 1: those groupings. Your core lineup groupings should be performing well

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Speaker 1: in preseason or they're not going to perform well in

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Speaker 1: the regular season. If they perform poorly in preseason, they

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00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 1: are setting a bad Uh. They're setting a bad uh

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Speaker 1: kind of like precedent, a bad set of habits for

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Speaker 1: the way they're gonna play once they start playing meaningful basketball. Um.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna start with the Warriors. UM. Only I

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00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 1: spent a couple of minutes on them today because we

625
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: did a whole video on them the other day and

626
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 1: they just played the exact same team. Uh. They jumped

627
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 1: out to an eight point lead against the Wizards and

628
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 1: then kind of relaxed and they ended up losing the game,

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00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 1: fell down big in their early second half. Um, they

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Speaker 1: did have fourteen points in their first four and a

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00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 1: half minutes in their offense looked really, really good. So

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Speaker 1: I wanted to kind of go play by play through

633
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Speaker 1: their first fourteen points to kind demonstrate the beauty of

634
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 1: Warriors basketball. So in the first play of the game,

635
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: they ran one of their four out one in actions,

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00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 1: and on the play, Jordan Pool back screened for Draymond Green,

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Speaker 1: and Draymond Green looped around the baseline and got a

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00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 1: dribble hand off um. Right after Pool backscreen for Draymond Green,

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00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: he went up and back screened for Steph Curry. Stephen

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Speaker 1: Jordan Pool's man's uh. They kind of were confused. They

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00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 1: decided to switch. Then Steph just cuts and curls off

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00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 1: the screen to the basket, and his defender chases right

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00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 1: as that second defender came. Then Jordan Pool just went

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Speaker 1: right off of that second defender as he was chasing Steph,

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Speaker 1: and right there waiting was Kevin Looney setting another screen.

646
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: Jordan Pool curl curled around that and got a wide

647
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Speaker 1: open three. And I was just sitting there thinking, like,

648
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: man like, imagine getting all hyped up for a preseason

649
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 1: game in Japan in front of a pack stadium. You're

650
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Speaker 1: getting ready to go out there and play hard and

651
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 1: show what you can do, and then you just immediately

652
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 1: get thrown in the blender. And after after trying to

653
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 1: navigate three different screening actions, you end up running into

654
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 1: a wall Kevon Looney and giving up a wide open three.

655
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 1: Very next possession, they ran a transition pick and roll

656
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: with Steph kind of like as they were going up

657
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 1: the floor, H Stephan, Draymond and both bodies went with Steph.

658
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 1: Steph dropped it off the Draymond. They ran a four

659
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 1: and four on three and Andrew Wiggins got fouled. A

660
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 1: couple of possessions are very next possession, Draymond hits a

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00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: three off of an Andrew Wiggins post up. Always good

662
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 1: to see Draymond Green hitting threes. It's like one of

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00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 1: the It's like the every team has like a thing,

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Speaker 1: like if the Boston Celtics are actually driving and kicking,

665
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: they become unbeatable, you know the Warriors. When Draymond Green's

666
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 1: making threes, they become unbeatable. A couple of possessions later,

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Speaker 1: there was a transition play where Draymond Green was leading

668
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 1: the break and it was a really interesting action from

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00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: Jordan Pool and Andrew Wiggins. So Jordan Pool Andrew Wiggins

670
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 1: are running up the left side of the floor, and

671
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 1: what typically happens when you don't have floor balance in

672
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: transition is one guy will run through and then the

673
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 1: other guy will stay in the corner. So Jordan Pool

674
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: runs through, and Kyle Kuzma's guarding Andrew Wiggins, and he's

675
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 1: expecting Andrew Wiggins to stay on that side floor balance,

676
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: but instead Andrew Wiggins just cuts and follows Jordan Pool

677
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 1: and Kuzma is completely caught with his pants down. Draymond

678
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 1: Green throws a perfect bounce pass in transition and Wiggins

679
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 1: gets a layup. A couple of possessions later, they ran

680
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 1: a their classic Warriors split cut uh split cut action. Basically,

681
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: all that is they throw it into the post. Usually

682
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: it's Straymon, sometimes it's Weigands. On this play it was Wiggins,

683
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 1: and then as soon as Wiggins caught the ball in

684
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: the post, Looney, who was one pass away, just cross

685
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: screens for staff. They've called split cut, some people call

686
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: them post splits. It's really just semantics. I don't care

687
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: as much about semantics with play calling because every team

688
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: calls things different. Like the Lakers run a drop coverage

689
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 1: and uh Darvin Hamm calls its center field. It doesn't

690
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 1: mean like everybody just has their own nomenclature for what

691
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: these things are. But the Warriors they refer to it

692
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: as their split cuts or their post split actions or

693
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: whatever it is. But essentially all it is is you

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00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: make a post entry and then immediately the guy who

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00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 1: makes the post entry sets a screen away and then

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00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 1: from there it's usually a shooter coming off of that,

697
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 1: and then the screener will dive. That's typically how split

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00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 1: cut actions work. On that play, Wiggins gets the ball

699
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 1: on the post, Looney just sets a basic cross screen

700
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 1: for Staff gets a good screen, Steff catches and nails

701
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 1: a wide open three. And then on the last play

702
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,240
Speaker 1: before of that run to get them to fourteen to six,

703
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,879
Speaker 1: there was a basic five outset. Looney has the ball

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00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:22,879
Speaker 1: on the left wing, Wiggins is in the corner. He

705
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 1: runs up with his left hand to do a dribble

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00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 1: handoff for Wiggins, and Wiggins just cuts back door and

707
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 1: Luney hits him on the bounce for an and one

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00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 1: um that went into a time out. So like the

709
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,879
Speaker 1: thing is, like we talked about earlier, that five out

710
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 1: set keeps things open for cuts and for slipping out

711
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:41,439
Speaker 1: of rolls and short rolls and things along those lines.

712
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: So what's beautiful about that is that dribble handoff Wiggins

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00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:47,799
Speaker 1: cutting back door probably doesn't result in a basket in

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00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 1: a four out one inset or in a three out

715
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,240
Speaker 1: two in set, but because it's in a five outset,

716
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: there's just no help there and it just kind of

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00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 1: makes it makes everything that they do so much harder

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00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: to guard. Again, anybody you missed that, we did a

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00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 1: whole like forty minutes on Warriors offense. Why what their

720
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 1: five outsets look like, how they use them to get

721
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: open threes and um uh, the cuts and rolls to

722
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 1: the basket. You're gonna want to check that out. It's

723
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,279
Speaker 1: just a little bit further back in our feed. So

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00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 1: obviously they ended up losing that game. Things got sloppy.

725
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:22,279
Speaker 1: Who cares, it's the preseason, but early on we saw

726
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 1: some classic Warriors offense. Their continuity is going to have

727
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:29,320
Speaker 1: them humming on all cylinders going into this season. Moving

728
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 1: on to the Celtics and the Hornets utterly destructive performance

729
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:37,359
Speaker 1: from Boston, they looked really, really good. Um. First of all,

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00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown the score. I think he had twenty four

731
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 1: points in twenty four minutes. I think he was like

732
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: eight for eleven from the field or something like that.

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Speaker 1: I talked about this a lot when we were doing

734
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 1: our Celtics breakdown. He's the pure scorer on the roster.

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00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 1: I view, Jayson Tatum is more of like a a

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00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,839
Speaker 1: playmaking forward, you know, like a classic point forward kind

737
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:59,319
Speaker 1: of guy. Uh, all of the metrics, isolation, post ups,

738
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 1: dribble handoff, coming off screen stuff like that. Jalen Brown

739
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: was the better play finisher. He's better at putting the

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00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 1: ball in the basket right now then Jayson Tatum is.

741
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,879
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum is just a much better passer, and he's

742
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 1: more consistent with getting dribble penetration and making the right

743
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 1: reads out of it. Jalen Brown is still kind of

744
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,760
Speaker 1: a mess as a passer, but Jalen looked dominant again

745
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 1: in that game against the Hornets. A couple of things

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00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: that I that stood out to me um particularly that

747
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 1: helps him have a success with the basketball. First of all,

748
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 1: quick decisions. Jalen Brown doesn't mess around with the ball

749
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 1: like he is very aggressive, but he's quick with his decisions.

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00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 1: What that means is it makes him predictable. You know

751
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 1: a lot of ball hogs or guys that are gunners,

752
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 1: guys that are scores, they disrupt the flow of the

753
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 1: offense because they're indecisive. You know, they catch, they'll jab

754
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: step four times and then they'll shoot, or they'll dribble

755
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: thirty times before they go into their into their move

756
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 1: or whatever. In those moments, things get stagnant, everyone's standing around.

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00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:58,719
Speaker 1: What I appreciate about Jalen is he's aggressive, but he's quick, decisive,

758
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 1: and predictable, so it makes easy for his teammates around

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00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:05,440
Speaker 1: him to play off of his aggression. And then lastly,

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00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 1: he's the I was working on closeouts with my high

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00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 1: school kids this morning and one of the big things

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00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: I kept telling him is, like shoot the three like

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00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: you don't. Yes, it's a drill to work on isolation skill. Yes,

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00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 1: it's a drill to work on putting the basketball on

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00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: the floor and beating people to spot, like beating people

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00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: to spots with contact and getting to the rim. But

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00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,400
Speaker 1: the reality is if you don't demonstrate the ability to

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00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: shoot the shot, they're gonna close out short on you.

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00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 1: And as soon as they start closing out short. Then

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00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 1: it just makes your job ten times harder when you're

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00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: trying to beat them off the dribble. And so I

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00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,320
Speaker 1: was just encouraging my kids, like on the catch, shoot

773
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 1: it every time when you're open, force them to close

774
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 1: out hard on you. Then you can start attacking the rim.

775
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 1: And that's the kind of the interesting thing with the

776
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown stuff is he's so aggressive as a pull

777
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 1: up shooter right now, both off the dribble and jab

778
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 1: steps like get out of triple threat, that guys have

779
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 1: to press up on him. And now the guys are

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00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:00,400
Speaker 1: pressing up on into that extent he's getting conser instant,

781
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: drible penetration because he's a big, strong athlete with a

782
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,720
Speaker 1: low center of gravity and he's just you know, I

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00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: I'm really surprised that Brooklyn didn't want to take that

784
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,400
Speaker 1: deal um to get jailing, because he would have been

785
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 1: such an awesome center piece, especially attached to draft picks.

786
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,719
Speaker 1: But hey, maybe Boston's better off in the long run.

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00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 1: Tatum had a somewhat rough night, but who cares. It's

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00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:22,920
Speaker 1: a preseason. Like I said, I'm more I'm not concerned

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00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 1: about result. I'm not concerned about the shots Uh, the

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00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 1: shot result like guys not shooting well when they're trying

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00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 1: to get their legs underneath him. What I care about

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00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,839
Speaker 1: most in the preseason is our guys playing hard. Um,

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00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:35,839
Speaker 1: are they running their scheme right? Like? Do they look

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00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 1: like a team that cares? Do they look like a

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00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 1: team that's bought into their coach? Do they look like

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00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: a team that's on a mission, or do they look

797
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 1: like a team that's just coasting and floating through. Tatum

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00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,799
Speaker 1: was out there defending, playing hard. He just didn't shoot well,

799
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 1: and I think he had three assists with five turnovers,

800
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 1: which is obviously not great for him. Malcolm brock him

801
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: it was the main reason why I wanted to watch

802
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:56,360
Speaker 1: this particular game. I wanted to get a feel for

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00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: what he looks like in a Boston jersey. His first

804
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: shift part, picularly up to the end of the first quarter,

805
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: was pretty rough, a lot of overpassing. Um. It's really

806
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 1: tough in general to integrate a good ball handler into

807
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: an existing basketball team that really already knows how to

808
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 1: play in Generally, you just don't You don't want to

809
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 1: step on each other's toes. So like there's some force

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00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: feeding him. But then he's also like force feeding others.

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00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 1: And the reality is is like what they need for

812
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 1: him is to be aggressive with the basketball until the

813
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 1: team collapse on it collapses on him, and then look

814
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:31,479
Speaker 1: to make plays. And in that first stretch going into

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Speaker 1: the end of the first quarter, he was a little

816
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 1: bit sloppy, some overpassing, wasn't looking for his own shot enough.

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00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 1: But man, in that second quarter. Um, to start the

818
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:43,320
Speaker 1: second quarter, they went with a bench lineup, and I'm

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00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 1: pretty sure Smart, Tatum and Brown were all out at

820
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:48,799
Speaker 1: this point. It might have been Brown was out there too,

821
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 1: but they featured brogged in primarily with the basketball to

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00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: start the second quarter, and almost immediately you could see

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00:39:56,960 --> 00:40:00,359
Speaker 1: what he brings to the table, consistent dribble penetration. He's

824
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 1: really good at painting the defender on his backside on

825
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 1: ball screens and then methodically working his way down the

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00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 1: lane to get dribble penetration off of ball screens. And

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Speaker 1: then he was just spraying out to shooters all day long.

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Speaker 1: He's already got really good chemistry with Grant Williams. Um

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00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 1: they had a couple of picking uh. They had a

830
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 1: picking pop three and then they had another driving kick three. Um.

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Speaker 1: Just in general, you could see the fit there with

832
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:26,799
Speaker 1: Brogden as like a legit uh shot creator, not just

833
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:28,879
Speaker 1: with the bench lineup, but that's gonna work really well

834
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 1: with the starters as well. I thought it was confusing

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00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 1: that they started Derek White and brought Malcolm Malcolm Brogden

836
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 1: off the bench. I'm assuming it's for staggering purposes and

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00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: they're gonna want to have him with the bench lineups.

838
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:40,400
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, Brogden is just

839
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 1: a better player than Derek White, and he's got to

840
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 1: be with them as much as possible. So I'm curious

841
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 1: to see how that dynamic goes over the course of

842
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 1: the season. One last note with Brogden his transition passing,

843
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 1: he was grabbing the ball and pushing with pace and

844
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 1: making plays to get easy shots in transition. I think

845
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a good fit with that Boston team,

846
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 1: which I think could stand a run of a bit

847
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:02,799
Speaker 1: more with how athletic they are. Quick note on the

848
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 1: Hornets again, I just started covering the league as a

849
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: whole um last year in February, so I've watched LaMelo

850
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:12,239
Speaker 1: ball probably as much as the average basketball fan has.

851
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 1: Here the average big time basketball fan, Like, I've watched

852
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,399
Speaker 1: him a few dozen times, but I don't know enough

853
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,239
Speaker 1: about him to have a strong opinion. And I'm really

854
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:23,359
Speaker 1: excited this year to watch a lot more of him

855
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:25,799
Speaker 1: to get a stronger opinion, and just to learn about

856
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:27,720
Speaker 1: him on a night and night out basis. In the NBA.

857
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 1: Last year, by the time I started covering the league,

858
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:31,720
Speaker 1: the Hornets were already kind of out of the picture,

859
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 1: so I just wasn't watching him that much. Um. The

860
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 1: reality there, there's there are things that I like and

861
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: there are things that are dislike. Up front, um natural

862
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:44,799
Speaker 1: feel as a passer when you get him in the

863
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: open floor, and that's usually in transition or if when

864
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 1: they set that really high ball screen almost starting away

865
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 1: from the basket so he can get downhill. When he's

866
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:56,400
Speaker 1: in the open floor and he's making plays, the passing

867
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:59,840
Speaker 1: is it's it's it's really impressive. And he has the

868
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:03,240
Speaker 1: ability to beat beat bigs on switches with quick dribble

869
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 1: moves to the right. He's got the ability to knock

870
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 1: down pull up jump shots. But there's the shot selection

871
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 1: sometimes is truly puzzling, Like he'll take obviously when he

872
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 1: was in high school, he took wild shots, but now

873
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: there's still a little bit of that there and adding

874
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:23,879
Speaker 1: unnecessary difficulty. There was a play where he was coming

875
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 1: off a pick and roll on the left side of

876
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:27,839
Speaker 1: the floor, defender gets caught on the screen. He's got

877
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 1: a ton of separation and he's coming down to like

878
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:32,439
Speaker 1: eighteen feet on the left wing, the biggest in drop.

879
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:36,320
Speaker 1: He's way far back, and instead of like getting balanced

880
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:39,879
Speaker 1: and raising up to uh to like take a nice

881
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:42,879
Speaker 1: up and down pull up jump shot, he just took

882
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 1: a drifting, floating eighteen footer or where his legs were

883
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:48,480
Speaker 1: kicked out and I know he kicks his feet out

884
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 1: a little bit naturally, but his whole upright body was

885
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 1: moving from right to left on the shot. And I'm

886
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 1: just sitting there thinking, like that's just unnecessary difficulty, Like

887
00:42:57,239 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: that is a twenty percent shot probably, but if he

888
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:01,839
Speaker 1: goes straight up and down, it's probably a thirty seven

889
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 1: thirty eight percent shot. And random pull ups in transition

890
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: the like, Like he's he's such a gifted passer that

891
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 1: looks for his teammates often, but then he goes through

892
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:12,839
Speaker 1: these random stretches where he gets kind of tunnel vision

893
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:15,400
Speaker 1: and he doesn't take great shots, um, and then on

894
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 1: the defensive end of the floor, it's just it's just

895
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 1: a nightmare. Um. He's so upright and finn that the

896
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 1: big wings just have their way with him. Jalen Brown

897
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,839
Speaker 1: had a dunk where he caught the ball literally looked

898
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 1: at LaMelo face to face and just drove right around him.

899
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 1: There was a little bit of contact, but Jalen just

900
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:33,759
Speaker 1: ripped through him because he's too thin and went up

901
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: and and throw a nasty one handed dunk down. Uh.

902
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:40,440
Speaker 1: A lot to be desired on the defensive end, a

903
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 1: lot to be desired with shot selection. Lots of good

904
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 1: too as a shot creator, especially in the high pick

905
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 1: and roll. I I I have really mixed feelings about

906
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 1: him right now, not a strong opinion. Like I said,

907
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 1: I want to see more of him before I have

908
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:55,399
Speaker 1: a strong opinion. But that was an ugly one to watch.

909
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 1: I think he went five for nineteen overall. Moving on

910
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 1: to the Sun. So they lose to the Adelaide thirty six.

911
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:04,839
Speaker 1: There's kind of reminiscent of that Thunder team that lost.

912
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 1: I can't even remember who it was, but they lost

913
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:11,240
Speaker 1: to some EuroLeague team a few years back. Um, Obviously,

914
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 1: motivational advantage plays a big role here. It's hard to

915
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:17,839
Speaker 1: get up for these kinds of games. Um, Adelaide's their

916
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 1: biggest game of the year, Like them winning that game

917
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 1: will matter as much to them, probably or close to

918
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 1: them when to them winning an NBH an NBL championship. Right, Um,

919
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:30,439
Speaker 1: But the reality is is, like like we were talking

920
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 1: about earlier with that t J McConnell story, like you

921
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:35,880
Speaker 1: just find out about the psychology these teams in these settings,

922
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 1: because yeah, they were at a big motivational advantage, the

923
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 1: Adelaide thirty sixers were, But all these preseason games are

924
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 1: not exactly motivational events. You're not super stoked to go

925
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:49,280
Speaker 1: out and play in front of a third full arena,

926
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 1: you know, in a game that doesn't mean anything, I

927
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: get it. But you find out a lot about the

928
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: chemistry these teams. This is a team that we were

929
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 1: concerned about their motivation. We were concerned about what was

930
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 1: going on between the years in the locker room, right,

931
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: And they couldn't get up to play hard for this team,

932
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 1: and obviously they ended up blowing the game, giving up

933
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 1: a hundred and thirty something points in the process. The

934
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 1: main thing that set out to me on film, and

935
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 1: I did a whole video breakdown on this. You can

936
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:18,879
Speaker 1: find it on my Twitter feed. Again at Underscore, Jason

937
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,439
Speaker 1: lt I did like a two minute video breaking down

938
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:25,479
Speaker 1: DeAndre Aten. But from the opening tip, he just didn't care.

939
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 1: And again look at the box score, I think he

940
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: had like twenty two points dominant offensive performance, Like he

941
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:39,240
Speaker 1: still has like magnets or vacuums for hands and catches

942
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:42,360
Speaker 1: everything around the rim and finishes it every single time.

943
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 1: He's every bit as good offensively he's always would hope

944
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 1: for him to be. But on defense, he's just doing

945
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 1: the bare minimum. You know. Like this is before we

946
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 1: get into the details. The main concept I wanted to

947
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:55,439
Speaker 1: get out here is the difference between doing the bare

948
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:58,800
Speaker 1: minimum and getting the job done. Yeah, in your scheme,

949
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 1: it might be your job to help here, or to

950
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 1: show here, or to hedge here, or to chase this

951
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:06,720
Speaker 1: guy or whatever the whatever your detail is in the scheme,

952
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 1: but you either do it well enough to get the

953
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 1: stop or you don't. And most defensive schemes, when ran right,

954
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 1: will work. But like the the the the amount of

955
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:20,160
Speaker 1: effort that Aton was putting in to his role was

956
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:22,879
Speaker 1: just simply not good enough. Opening possession of the game,

957
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: Devin Booker gets caught on a back screen from from

958
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:28,200
Speaker 1: DeAndre Ayton's man. What are you supposed to do when

959
00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 1: you are the big and your big sets a back

960
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 1: screen and and the guy gets loose to the rim,

961
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 1: that's your responsibility. The thirty sixers ended up blowing it

962
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 1: with a bad lob pass, but Aton was completely out

963
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:40,680
Speaker 1: of position and offered no help on the play. It

964
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:43,840
Speaker 1: was wide open at the rim. Like very next possession,

965
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 1: he's kind of like over helping on a on a

966
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 1: pick and pick and roll drop coverage. Booker's got the

967
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 1: guard completely contained, like just completely under control, and Aidan's

968
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:56,399
Speaker 1: just kind of floating around behind him. Meanwhile, his man

969
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 1: is popped to the elbow and they drop it off

970
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 1: and he gets a wide open fifty footer. That guy

971
00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:03,600
Speaker 1: ends up getting going and gets going from three. A

972
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: couple possessions later, he's over helping on a curl once again,

973
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:09,440
Speaker 1: just sinking into the paint because that's the easy thing

974
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 1: for the big to do. His guy pops out of

975
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:14,120
Speaker 1: the three point line, knocks down at three. There's another

976
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:17,240
Speaker 1: possession where in transition he ends up getting switched onto

977
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:19,759
Speaker 1: or in a screening action. He ends up getting switched

978
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 1: onto one of their guards, and DeAndre just doesn't even

979
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: go out past the three point line. He's literally just

980
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:28,839
Speaker 1: standing about ten twelve feet away, arms up, just like

981
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:32,799
Speaker 1: just offering a cursory, you know, presence there, and the

982
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:36,360
Speaker 1: guard just shoots the wide open three and nails it.

983
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:38,919
Speaker 1: It was number twelve, the left handed, left handed kid.

984
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:42,239
Speaker 1: He gets going now, next possession, he races down and

985
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:45,279
Speaker 1: shoots like a wild transition three, and Michail bridges his

986
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:48,280
Speaker 1: face and makes it. And the reason why he makes

987
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:51,760
Speaker 1: that is he gets his rhythm when Atan's not guarding

988
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:55,800
Speaker 1: him on the previous possession Like these, the rhythm is

989
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 1: a delicate thing. When you lose to a team that

990
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:00,480
Speaker 1: shoots you out of the arena, it usually starts with

991
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:02,319
Speaker 1: you not defending well at the beginning of the game.

992
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:05,799
Speaker 1: And then the big, the big glaring one was that

993
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: the it was I think it was late second quarter,

994
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:11,920
Speaker 1: our mid second quarter, but Devin Booker takes a tough

995
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:15,439
Speaker 1: like step back transition three and it was bad shot.

996
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:17,760
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, but he's Devin a Booker and

997
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 1: and he needs to have a green light and he

998
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:20,920
Speaker 1: needs to have the freedom to take difficult shots. And

999
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 1: Aton doesn't like the shot, so he turns around and

1000
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 1: literally walks for like five steps as the team is

1001
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:29,879
Speaker 1: running the other way. Then he kind of gets going

1002
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:32,799
Speaker 1: into a jog and in the process Mikhail Bridges has

1003
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 1: to pick up his man, the big. So then they

1004
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:38,279
Speaker 1: the thirty sixers immediately run a pick and roll. They

1005
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 1: switch it now Chris Paul's on the big. They dump

1006
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 1: it down into the block and Chris Paul fouls him

1007
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 1: as he's going up for a layup. And once again

1008
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 1: that's a mismatch that was given because Eton wasn't trying.

1009
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 1: He was walking up the floor in transition. It was

1010
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:53,759
Speaker 1: just like it was like the most embarrassing twenty two

1011
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:55,800
Speaker 1: point performance I've seen in a long time, because he

1012
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 1: just his body language is bad, his defense was atrocious,

1013
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:03,279
Speaker 1: and it allowed a lower level professional team from a

1014
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:05,880
Speaker 1: league in Australia to beat an NBA team, which is

1015
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 1: inexcusable under any circumstances. It's just something to watch here

1016
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 1: in the early part of the season. You know, um,

1017
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:15,080
Speaker 1: like this is a team, like I said, that's got

1018
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 1: some baggage from the summer. When when the losses pile

1019
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:20,879
Speaker 1: up is when the baggage rears its ugly head. Now,

1020
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 1: I think this team is talented enough to win their

1021
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:25,200
Speaker 1: way through this, but if they do start to lose,

1022
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 1: and once again, this is just a preseason game. If

1023
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 1: they do start to lose, it could be a problem

1024
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:33,359
Speaker 1: in the long run. But congrats to the Adelaide thirty

1025
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 1: six or is just a really cool moment for them. Um,

1026
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:40,800
Speaker 1: the basketball God's definitely levied a judgment on the effort

1027
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:42,799
Speaker 1: level from the Sun's. The other thing, too, is just

1028
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 1: the gap between basketball talent from different levels is it's

1029
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 1: it's kind of both. It's like people don't realize how

1030
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 1: good NBA players are. Like people see me a six

1031
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:55,440
Speaker 1: six wing with six ten wings band that can get

1032
00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 1: his head by the room and shoot and dribble and stuff,

1033
00:49:57,200 --> 00:50:00,040
Speaker 1: and they think like, oh, he uh, he must to

1034
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:02,319
Speaker 1: be a near NBA player. It's like no, no no, no,

1035
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 1: Like if I went to an NBA training camp tomorrow,

1036
00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:05,879
Speaker 1: I get my ass handed to me, Like these guys

1037
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:09,000
Speaker 1: are insanely good. But at the same time, like if

1038
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 1: I was playing in a game and the team wasn't

1039
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:14,719
Speaker 1: respecting me and they let me get comfortable like, yeah,

1040
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:16,920
Speaker 1: I could get going, I can make some shots. And

1041
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:18,400
Speaker 1: that's kind of the That's kind of the way I

1042
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 1: look at it is like if you go up against

1043
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:22,400
Speaker 1: an NBL team, if you go up against a cb

1044
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:24,880
Speaker 1: A team, if you go up against the EuroLeague team

1045
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:28,560
Speaker 1: and you don't bring effort. These are good basketball players,

1046
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:30,759
Speaker 1: Like they will beat you. They will beat you if

1047
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:33,200
Speaker 1: you if you do not take them seriously and respect them,

1048
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 1: and they found out the hard way. UM. Lastly, Raptors Jazz.

1049
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 1: Quick note of the Jazz. They have a deep repertoire

1050
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:41,440
Speaker 1: of good basketball players. I think they ended up starting

1051
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 1: Leak Beasley, Mike Conley, Lori, marking in Jared Vanderbilt, and

1052
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 1: I can't remember who the fifth guy was, but then

1053
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 1: they ended up bringing like Collin Sexton in off of

1054
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:56,360
Speaker 1: the bench. They they have a lot of good basketball players.

1055
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:58,880
Speaker 1: So I wonder how much they're gonna be willing to

1056
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 1: be a team that under five hundred but competitive before

1057
00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:04,400
Speaker 1: they decide that it might be time to start selling

1058
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 1: those guys off um in pursuit of picks, although they

1059
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 1: did end up getting eight picks this summer, so maybe

1060
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:12,719
Speaker 1: they don't need them. UM. Looking at the Raptors. It

1061
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:14,400
Speaker 1: was kind of funny to watch them on offense. We

1062
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 1: didn't do a season preview for them because they were

1063
00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:18,440
Speaker 1: kind of in the middle of the pack and um

1064
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 1: I generally I'm lower on the Raptors than most people,

1065
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:23,320
Speaker 1: just because of the lack of ball handling and shooting,

1066
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:27,320
Speaker 1: which we're gonna get to um. But they are an

1067
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:29,279
Speaker 1: interesting team. We just didn't have time to get to

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00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:33,320
Speaker 1: them in the season previews. They are relentless with matchup attacking.

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00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:36,120
Speaker 1: They've got these huge forwards right like o Ganna nob

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00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 1: and Scottie Barnes and um In Pascal Siakam and on

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00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:41,839
Speaker 1: a lot of possessions, it's just like give the ball

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00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:44,080
Speaker 1: to one of them and they just play bullyball, you know,

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00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 1: live dribble from the perimeter, turned their back to the basket,

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00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 1: back them down, back them down, back them down, wait

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00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:51,880
Speaker 1: till the defense collapses, and then spray out to shoot

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00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:56,160
Speaker 1: her right. Um. But the but it gets a little bit,

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00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:59,320
Speaker 1: it gets a little bit rudimentary because they don't shoot

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00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:01,719
Speaker 1: the ball well enough. Things collapse around them, they get

1079
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:03,799
Speaker 1: caught in traffic, they turn the basketball over. They can

1080
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 1: be a little sloppy on the offensive, end of the floor. Again,

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00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 1: I don't think they have nearly enough shooting and ball

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00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 1: handling to truly contend compared to the best teams in

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00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:16,000
Speaker 1: the league, but they do have some of the most

1084
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 1: physically imposing five man groupings in the league. There was

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00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:21,759
Speaker 1: one line up in particular that Raptors fans were getting

1086
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 1: really excited about in that game O g and a Nobi,

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00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 1: Pascal Sam, Chris Bouche, Pressius Chua and Scottie Barnes. And

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00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 1: they played quite a bit there. I believe it was

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00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:32,759
Speaker 1: it was either end of the first or start of

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00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,560
Speaker 1: the second quarter, and they actually didn't do that well.

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00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:37,239
Speaker 1: And a big part of it was they had really

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00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:39,239
Speaker 1: bad off ball defense. And I did a whole video

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00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:40,560
Speaker 1: on this again, so you can find it on my

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00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:43,399
Speaker 1: Twitter feed, kind of breaking down these concepts. But like

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00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 1: the whole point of that type of lineup is if

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00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 1: you switch everything, they don't have a good option to attack.

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00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, maybe I can get some drible penetration

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00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 1: on Chris Bouche, but he's so long an athletic he's

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00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:59,160
Speaker 1: gonna be able to gain some ground, right, you know,

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00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:01,800
Speaker 1: Or like maybe you think you have a decent chance

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00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 1: against o g and and Obi because he's only six

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00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 1: ft seven or whatever if you're a taller player. But

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00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:09,799
Speaker 1: the truth is there's no good option, and so what

1104
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:12,360
Speaker 1: you're supposed to do in that defensive scheme is switch

1105
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:15,960
Speaker 1: everything and bait them into playing. Is so, And if

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00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:19,120
Speaker 1: they make some tough shots over contests, or if they

1107
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:22,360
Speaker 1: occasionally beat to the dribble as your big forward is

1108
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:25,200
Speaker 1: coming and slapping the backboard and he barely makes a layup,

1109
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:27,839
Speaker 1: it's like, applause, nice shot, run back on defense. We'll

1110
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:29,320
Speaker 1: see if you can do that next time, you know

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00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:31,319
Speaker 1: what I mean. But instead, what they were doing is

1112
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:33,319
Speaker 1: they were doing the classic Nick Nurse thing where they're

1113
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 1: overhelping everywhere. There was a play where Bouche had Conly

1114
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:42,759
Speaker 1: completely corralled on a drive and like, Condy has no advantage,

1115
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:45,640
Speaker 1: but he's kind of getting downhill, but Bouchet is still

1116
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:49,400
Speaker 1: between him in the rim and uh Pascal Siakom just

1117
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:52,400
Speaker 1: blatantly abandons his man to step up and help, and

1118
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:54,960
Speaker 1: his man cuts back door and Condy drops it off

1119
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 1: and they draw foul. There's another one where Scottie Barnes

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00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:01,640
Speaker 1: had Jordan Clarkson on his hip and Clarkson gets just

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00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:03,319
Speaker 1: a little bit of a step and he's going to

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00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: the rim, and you know what, he would have got

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00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:07,400
Speaker 1: a layup off like he would have gotten there to

1124
00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:11,360
Speaker 1: the rim, but Scotty Barnes is gonna block that into oblivion.

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00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 1: He's a better athlete and he's going step for step

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00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:16,680
Speaker 1: with him. That's going to end poorly for Jordan Clarkson.

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00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:19,840
Speaker 1: But no, instead, I think it was Precious steps up.

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00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:23,319
Speaker 1: After Precious steps up, there's uh, the ball gets kicked

1129
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:25,239
Speaker 1: out and the Raptors don't get matched up, and then

1130
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 1: someone finally closes out and there's a wide open man

1131
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:30,520
Speaker 1: right under the basket for a layup. It's like it

1132
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:33,120
Speaker 1: could have been Scotty Barnes blocking Jordan Clarkson off the

1133
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:34,920
Speaker 1: glass and then going the other way on the break,

1134
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 1: but instead it's a layup because you overhelped. And then

1135
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: there was one last play where I can't remember who

1136
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:42,520
Speaker 1: it was it was guarding the ball, but once again

1137
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:46,200
Speaker 1: ball was under control, Precious gets cut back door on

1138
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:48,239
Speaker 1: because he's not paying attention off ball, and they end

1139
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:50,879
Speaker 1: up getting a wide open layup. So the thing is

1140
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:54,719
Speaker 1: is like that lineup should be devastating defensively, But the

1141
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:57,479
Speaker 1: whole purpose of that lineup is to bait you into

1142
00:54:57,480 --> 00:55:00,759
Speaker 1: playing one on one basketball. You don't to over help

1143
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 1: with that group. You want to encourage them to think

1144
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:05,520
Speaker 1: that they can isolate because in the long run that

1145
00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 1: will work out for you. A couple other positive notes. Uh,

1146
00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 1: Scotty Barnes looked pretty good on the ball again attacking mismatches.

1147
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:16,400
Speaker 1: He got a foul call attacking um Kelly Olynik in

1148
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:19,880
Speaker 1: a in an ISO. He had a really nasty post

1149
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:23,279
Speaker 1: up fade away over his left shoulder over Jared Vanderbilt.

1150
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:24,719
Speaker 1: Then he had like a miss dunk right at the

1151
00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:26,560
Speaker 1: end of the first quarter that kind of reminded me

1152
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:29,800
Speaker 1: of Lebron dunking on Um use of Ner Kitchen that

1153
00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:32,239
Speaker 1: Portland game back in two thousand eighteen where he kind

1154
00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 1: of curled around. This one was more in transition. Lebrons

1155
00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:36,920
Speaker 1: was more of behalf court type of deal. But they

1156
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:39,800
Speaker 1: ran a set where they get inbound the ball to

1157
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:43,359
Speaker 1: uh Scotty in the backcourt so that he can get

1158
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:46,080
Speaker 1: ahead of steam and as he curled around the ball

1159
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:48,440
Speaker 1: screen like there were people in the lane. But it's

1160
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:50,759
Speaker 1: Scotty Barnes with the head of Steam. They had absolutely

1161
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:53,160
Speaker 1: no hope of stopping him, you know, missing the dunk

1162
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:56,000
Speaker 1: off the front rim um, but it was but he

1163
00:55:56,080 --> 00:55:58,040
Speaker 1: was right there and it was a good play. I

1164
00:55:58,080 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 1: just would like to see them continue to do stuff

1165
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 1: like that. Get Scotty with the head his team, whether

1166
00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:05,320
Speaker 1: that's semi transition or running your pick and rolls further

1167
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:07,799
Speaker 1: out towards half court. Just anything to get him ahead

1168
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:10,040
Speaker 1: of Steam because he's almost impossible when he gets there,

1169
00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 1: impossible to handle when he gets there. Um, he was

1170
00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:15,920
Speaker 1: moving the ball well. He had a nice little pick

1171
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:18,920
Speaker 1: and pop pass the precious for three. He ended up

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00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:22,840
Speaker 1: uh scoring eight points, having five rebounds, and three assists

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00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:25,160
Speaker 1: in eighteen minutes. So extrapolated out to a thirty six

1174
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 1: minute game, that's sixteen, ten and six. That's a really good,

1175
00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 1: well rounded game. Um, and the last positive thing precious

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00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:34,520
Speaker 1: to Chewa. I. I started to come around on this

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00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:36,480
Speaker 1: towards the end of the year last year, but I

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00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:39,160
Speaker 1: really like what he's doing attacking closeouts. He demonstrated a

1179
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:41,160
Speaker 1: little bit of movement shooting with his pick and pop

1180
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:44,280
Speaker 1: shot with Scotty Barnes getting his feet set quickly after

1181
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:46,920
Speaker 1: screening and popping hard to the three point line, and

1182
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:48,919
Speaker 1: then he had a nasty dunk on the left wing

1183
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:51,239
Speaker 1: where he caught the ball defender closed out and he

1184
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:54,080
Speaker 1: just ripped through and extended out in front and turned

1185
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:57,919
Speaker 1: the basketball over on the rim um. They're really interesting team. Again,

1186
00:56:57,960 --> 00:56:59,799
Speaker 1: I'm not as high on them as Raptors fans are.

1187
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:02,200
Speaker 1: I'm really high on them for the future, but right

1188
00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 1: now they need somebody to really develop into a good

1189
00:57:06,719 --> 00:57:09,360
Speaker 1: creator with the basketball, and hopefully it's Scotty, but I

1190
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:11,480
Speaker 1: think he's a few years away. I think Scotty Barnes

1191
00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:14,120
Speaker 1: is like a is going to be an All NBA player,

1192
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:15,640
Speaker 1: Like that's how good I think he's going to be.

1193
00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:19,120
Speaker 1: But he I'd be keeping an eye on his on

1194
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:22,040
Speaker 1: ball creation and and just in general. With the Raptors,

1195
00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:24,520
Speaker 1: I haven't seen enough to make me take them seriously

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00:57:24,600 --> 00:57:27,000
Speaker 1: as a threat. All right, guys, that is all I

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00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:29,960
Speaker 1: have for today. We would be back tomorrow with some more,

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00:57:30,360 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 1: um a preseason breakdown, as well as some gambling content,

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Speaker 1: some you know, season over unders and things along those lines.

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00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:40,000
Speaker 1: I also saw the NBA g M Survey. The annual

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00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:43,640
Speaker 1: GM survey came out yesterday. Excuse me. Today, we'll do

1202
00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:46,040
Speaker 1: some stuff about that as well. I think it's really

1203
00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:48,520
Speaker 1: interesting to see how my ideology is lined up with

1204
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:51,080
Speaker 1: the general managers around the league. See where we disagree,

1205
00:57:51,120 --> 00:57:53,200
Speaker 1: see where we agree. Things along those lines, all right.

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00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:55,320
Speaker 1: As always, I appreciate you guys support, and we will

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Speaker 1: see you next time. And the bad and the volume